Re: [whatwg/url] Provide a succinct grammar for valid URL strings (#479)

> I want to point out that although the WHATWG web site claims to obsolete the IETF RFCs, it can't do that -- only the IETF can obsolete its own RFCs. So whatever happens here, there will still be two (or maybe three) grammars until somebody reconciles them.

Not in the IETF's own sense of obsoletion, but it can indeed obsolete the IETF RFCs in the plain English sense of the word:

> no longer produced or used; out of date.
> _"the disposal of old and obsolete machinery"_

As you are no doubt aware from your work on zone-IDs, nobody can require browsers to support any particular technology in any particular form. For URLs, it happens that the IETF's approach is not compatible with the reality on the web; hence this standard was created, and the IETF's standards are indeed no longer used.

Aside: personally, if I had a problem that browsers refused to implement some previous IETF standard (say, zone-IDs), and I specifically wanted to improve support _by browsers_, I would focus on building consensus within this forum (created by the browser developers for that express purpose) rather than bringing things up with a different organisation. Any browser support would need to be a part of _this standard_ anyway, so respecting the procedures that already exist for that is likely to be more productive. But that's a process issue and not related to the topic at hand.

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